ajay devgn

The debacle of Ghanchakkar, has cost the talented director 5 years to make a comeback. He uses two of the best actors in the trade to deliver his 128 minute drama, RAID. Let me tell you where the film suffers, its way too long post interval, has two songs too many in the same segment, the romantic song and the climax song both could have been easily done away with, cos they only make the film look...[Read More]

Everyone knows the Golmaal series is a slapstick comedy with it being accused quite a few times of a movie one should see by keeping one’s brains at home etc…. barring the first one, which was a masterpiece. (Yes it did have my favourite Sharman as part of it, which made it so much more endearing.) Part 2 was a disaster with Kareena / Amrita ruining it. Part 3 was fun with Mithun / Ratna / Prem Ch...[Read More]

Well I wonder how the concept, ideation and execution of this film might have happened; Actor 1: I have not had a decent hit since some time now, seemed like ages when I did that Tamil remake…. Actor 2: forget that, even my biopics aint working… tried everything in the past 4 years, horror, some more horror, kachra, some more nonsensical kachra…. But alas…. Adhuri kahani…. Director: I could...[Read More]

Honestly even though I love Ajay Devgn as an actor and have been a huge fan of his, there is nothing nice that I can say about his second and hopefully last directorial venture. The film takes its own sweet time to build a non-existent plot. Devgn keeps throwing punch lines looking at the camera and walking in his now famous Rohit Shetty films slo-mo walk. It is not that he has not put in effort, ...[Read More]

Well have been meaning to write this prior to the ‘negative’ publicity around the ‘ban’ against the upcoming Diwali flick, Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (ADHM). Firstly, whom were they kidding? Did they actually think they would ban one of the biggest releases of the year, during the most anticipated festival time, by one of the biggest production houses in Bollywood? After the release of Udta ...[Read More]

A 4th fail, local cable operator, Vijay Salgaoncar, leads a normal day to day life in a sleepy suburb of Goa, along with his wife and 2 daughters. An innocent inter-school nature trip, leads to his daughter being stalked by which starts a chain of unfortunate events, leading to the boy’s accidental death. Although the family tries its best to hide their crime, only to realise that he was the son o...[Read More]

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